The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 32
On three sides of the castle lay a lovely garden with masses of gay, sweet flowers, and velvet lawns all cool and shady, which pleased the eye of the princess.
Who acts: three sides · What happens: lie · To what, where: lovely garden
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sides), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 sides | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sides | nummod |
| 3 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sides | nmod |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | amod |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 masses | case |
| 12 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 garden | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gay | case |
| 14 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 masses | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flowers | punct |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flowers | amod |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 masses | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cool | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cool | cc |
| 20 | velvet | velvet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lawns | amod |
| 21 | lawns | lawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cool | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 cool | advmod |
| 23 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shady | cc |
| 25 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cool | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pleased | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 pleased | nsubj |
| 28 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cool | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 eye | det |
| 30 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pleased | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 princess | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 princess | det |
| 33 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eye | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | three sides of the castle | a lovely garden | with masses of gay and sweet flowers | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garden=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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